A bag of marijuana was the first thing ever bought and sold over the internet.
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Amazon sells more e-books than printed books.
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Kissenger is a pig-shaped robotic device that lets you kiss someone over the internet.
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In 1999, Pokémon was the second most searched topic on the internet. The first was pornography.
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The ‘@’ sign is centuries old, and was used in Europe to denote a unit of weight (the “arroba”) equivalent to 25 lbs.
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IMDb is one of the oldest websites on the internet, and began on Usenet in 1990 as a list of "actresses with beautiful eyes".
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After coming across a "very sweet" homeless man from Jamaica named Michael on a night out, Londoner Jenny Baker took to Twitter, and within hours, using the hashtag #getmichaelhome, had raised thousands of pounds so that he could return home to Jamaica where he said he would be "happy again".
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